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M. ADLER.

CORSET CLASP. No. 307,895. Patented Nov. l1, 1884.

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the width of the slot b in the eye.

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MAX ADLER, OF NET HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TC MAYER, STRCUSE & CO., OF SAME PLACE.

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.SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 307,895, dated November 11, 1884.

Application tiled February Qi, 1854. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, MAX ADLER, of New Haven, inthe county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Corset-Clasps; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specication, and represent, in*

Figure 1,a perspective view ofa pair of corset-springs, showing the improved clasping device applied thereto; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the eye detached; Fig. 3, a perspective view of the lockingspring detached; Fig. 4, the blank as cut from sheet-steel to form the spring; Fig. 5, a longitudinal section through the eye and spring united, Fig. 6,' the same as Fig. 5, showing the eye as engaged with the stud, Fig. 7, a modification.

This invention relates to an improvement in corset-clasps,with special reference to a device for locking the eye of one part when engaged with the stud on the other part, and the invention consists in theeon1bination,with the eye, ofa spring of peculiar construction, as hereinafter described, and more particularly recited in the claim.

A represents one husk or spring, and B the other, C, an eye ot' the usual construction applied tothe part B, a, the stud, applied to the other part in the usual manner, the eye having the usual slot, b,in width about the diameter of the body of the stud, and which is enlarged at its rear end to form an opening, d, through which the head of the stud will pass, in the usual manner, D, the spring shown detached in Fig. 3. This spring is cut from thin elastic sheet metal, preferably steel, as seen in Fig. 4, of substantially the same outline as the eye, but a little longer. From the opening e, which corresponds to the opening d of the eye, the slot f is cut, preferably through the outer end, and in Width corresponding to The solid portion of the spring is then bent to raise transverse ribs h upon each side, as seen in Fig. 3. This bending, which is substantially inverted-U shape, contracts the length of the 5o blank, Fig. 4, to substantially that of the eye,

as seen in Fig. 3. The spring is punched at its rear end to correspond to the holes in the eye, so that the same rivets which secure the eye also secure the spring D. The height of the transverse ribs h his slightly less than the distance between the under side of the head and the eye when the stud projects through the eye. The spring is applied so that from its point et' connection with the eye it stands 6o up free from the eye, as seen in Fig. 5, and

so that the spring may be depressed until it reaches the surface of the eye. The stud is introduced through the larger part e of the opening in the eye, in the usual manner ofengaging the eye with the stud on corsets. Then the stud is drawn into the narrower part of the slot, and in so doing its head strikes upon the ribs 7th and depresses the spring, so as to permit the head to pass outside of those 7o ribs, as seen in Fig. 6. Then the spring is free to rise and bring the ribs in rear of the head, so as to prevent its accidental return to the larger part of the slot. In disengaging the clasp the head is forced rearward, and, coming against the ribs,readily depresses the spring until the head may pass over them; but the inclination is so slight, as shown, that accidental disengagement will not occur.

It will he evident that instead of making 8o the slot to extend entirely through the end ofthe spring, as seen in Fig. 4, it may stop short ot' the end, as seen in Fig. 7, the part F ofthe slot being made so long` that when bent to form the rib its outer end will correspend substantially to the outer end of the slot b in the eye. In either case the slot or opening through the spring corresponds substantially to the slot or opening in the eye.

I do not claim, broadly, the attachment of a sheet-metal spring to a corset-clasp eye, and having a transverse shoulder to engage the head ofthe stud, as such, I am aware, is notnew.

I claim- The combination of the eye C of a corsetclasp, having the usual slot, b d, with the sheet-metal spring D, corresponding in shapel substantially to the sha-pe of the eye, and constructed with a slot also corresponding to the slot in the eye, the said spring bent to form transverse inverted-lJ-shaped ribs each side the narrower portion of the slot, substantially* as described, the rear end of the spring made fast to the rear end of the eye and the headed stud, the said eye piece and its spring at tacked to one of the .busks 0f a corset, and the said headed stud attached to the other 1o busk of :L corset.

MAX ADLER.

JOS. C. EARLE,

l 'Vitnesses:

TOOCKER. 

